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James Groux is the owner and director Building Design Workshop, a multi-skilled consultancy that promotes sustainable architecture. Having founded the firm in 1990, he possesses 40 years of experience in the field of architecture. In the following piece, Groux explores the UK planning system and analyses how it can be improved.

Eyres Monsell Primary School headteacher Kerry Hill contributed a piece to the latest edition of Wellbeing in International Schools Magazine.

Leading flood protection specialists M3 Floodtec received the first BS 851188 Kitemark Certificate in recognition of its anti flood airbricks at the 2021 Flood Expo last week.

With the furlough scheme in the UK set to come to an end following the conclusion of this month, many businesses will be left facing a tough decision about how to move forward. While the UK has come out of the COVID-19 pandemic induced lockdown, there remains plenty of uncertainty. Below, managing partner at Bell Howley Perrotton Simon Howley discuses the options available to businesses up and down the country.

In an article which originally appeared on LinkedIn and forms the latest edition in a series focusing on boardroom challenges, Positive Psychology and Leadership Consultant Charlotte Wiseman discusses why trust is the foundation of workplace culture.

Founded in 1991, Jaffray Care Learning Disability Services was originally part of the NHS when it was opened by the North Birmingham Health Authority in response to 1990 Community Care Act.

The Global Women's Assembly for Climate Change has urged world leaders to prioritise women at COP26 and other similar summit meetings in the future.

Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has set out the UK's ambition to develop a leading regulatory environment for both medical devices and in-vitro diagnostics.

Shetland-based childcare provider Hame Fae Home has been nominated for the Living Wage Scotland local champion award.

Based in West London, Community ConneX is an established health and social care organisation that serves its local community, working to allow people to live healthy, happy, and independent lives.

Boris Johnson has urged fellow world leaders to "grow up" and "come of age" in the battle against climate change during an address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Buttle UK has published a new report, The State of Child Poverty 2021, which focuses on the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable children and young people.

Reading a fictional story for just 10 minutes per day can help improve an individual's wellbeing and levels of creativity, Ohio State University professor of story science Angus Fletcher has argued in a recent book.

The government launched a long-term plan this summer to support UK high streets, with the goal of supporting them to remain vibrant places where people work, visit and live.